A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

November 30, 2011

Nothing that exists is going away any time soon

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. Nothing that exists is going away any time soon not nuclear power nor sympathy not the desire for a better world nor warlords nor t...

Early

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. I am looking at young people and wondering if they always seemed so young these particular young people are particularly inarticulat...
November 28, 2011

Coment on a coment on teaching

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.   I think if they had been talking about 'family, babies or a recipe they enjoyed' I would have been equally disgusted. But ...
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München

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. I don’t think this is the kind of place I would go if I lived here, but since I don’t live here it is the best coffee I have found so ...
November 20, 2011

Reasonable

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. Everyone is so reasonable and the results are so tepid. Then everyone is so unreasonable and the results are equally tepid. And oc...
November 19, 2011

Addendum

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. How, when you speak, to mean not only what you say, but also to mean the opposite, at the same time. Because life, and each of us, are...
November 6, 2011

Strange gratitude

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. You said to me that I saved the institutions anniversary. (Of course only a joke.) But I don’t want to save the institution. I don’t w...
November 2, 2011

Teachers generally like teaching

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. What I've learned through the comments on the post below, both here and on Facebook, is that, it seems, teachers generally like te...
October 30, 2011

On teaching

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. There’s a joke I often make about teaching. Something like: I hate teaching. I hate the students. I just want to punch them in the...
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October 29, 2011

Blaise Cendrars quote

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. I was a youngster in those days, Hardly sixteen and already I couldn't remember my childhood. I was sixteen thousand leagues awa...
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October 27, 2011

Failures come alive

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. Perverse curating Dressing up and acting normal Boring lecture on a fascinating topic Failures come alive .
October 20, 2011

Club music

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. Club music. A beat that doesn’t change or that shifts constantly, relentlessly, when you least expect it or at regular intervals. Sque...
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October 18, 2011

And I noticed my poems were too staged

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. And I noticed my poems were too staged, too rational, reasonable – it was like they’d never fucked anyone – arching their way towards ...

Song fragment (concerning the vagaries of aging)

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. I think there’s something you don’t understand you won’t always be a hot young band your hair will gray and your styles grow old I’...
October 15, 2011

Excerpt from Chamber of Public Secrets' subjective effort to explore the richness and specificity of collective curating

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. To begin with, there were a couple of questions from Viktor Misiano: ‘If not you, who? If not now, when?’ And a number of responses s...
October 13, 2011

I had no other choice but to walk

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. So I began to think about how long I’ve been taking walks. Years, decades. And if I live significantly longer I could keep on adding, ...
October 4, 2011

It's hard (song fragment)

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. It’s hard to be an everyday habit and it’s hard to be a tossed away stone it’s hard to be an orgasm rabbit and it’s hardest to leave it al...
September 30, 2011

One week of Randnotizen

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. For the past week, I have been in Graz blogging for the festival Steirischer Herbst as part of their Randnotizen . My posts were as f...
September 29, 2011

Artists, by definition

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. Artists should, by definition, have a more bohemian life in which they work less than other people. This is apparently not the case. ...
September 16, 2011

Trondheim > Malmö

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. In Trondheim we had one day of sun followed by three days of rain. And, staring at the strange juxtaposition of dark clouds against bl...
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Jacob Wren
Jacob Wren makes literature, collaborative performances and exhibitions. His books include Polyamorous Love Song, Rich and Poor, Authenticity is a Feeling and Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim. As artistic director of the interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created performances such as: En français comme en anglais, it's easy to criticize, Individualism Was A Mistake, The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information, Every Song I’ve Ever Written and Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans la répétition. PME-ART also presented the online conference Vulnerable Paradoxes and the related free PDF publication In response to Vulnerable Paradoxes. He is co-founder of the orchestra The Air Contains Honey whose first album is forthcoming in 2026. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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